In Energy Efficient Building Design, you'll learn ...

Energy efficiency concepts

The factors affecting energy consumption

The benefits of a low-energy building

Overview

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Credit: 4 PDH

Length: 53 pages

This four-hour course covers energy efficiency concepts for commercial buildings and how to incorporate these concepts to provide a low-energy building. Using the ideas presented in this course may help to reduce energy consumption up to 30% over a conventional commercial building. The course, explains the basic concepts, where and how in the design process they should be considered and gives a couple of examples where the results were applied and yielded significant energy cost savings.

Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

Energy efficiency concepts

The factors affecting energy consumption

The benefits of a low-energy building

How to integrate energy efficiency into the planning process

The benefits of daylighting

How facade design affects energy consumption

Certificate of Completion

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 25 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.